MURCIA, Negros Occidental - "You are safe, you are now under my care."

This was the assurance Col. Jerry Jalandoni, 303rd Infantry Brigade commander, gave DYEZ Aksyon Radyo Bacolod news director Julius Mariveles yesterday.

But Mariveles and "Article 3," an alliance of Negros journalists, yesterday said a verbal assurance is not enough. They said his name should be removed from the list of "top Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army leaders" in the Visayas drawn up by the AFP Central Command.

The assurance of Jalandoni was good but the threat remains until my name is removed from the list, Mariveles stressed.

The continued inclusion of Mariveles in such a list still poses a clear danger to his life as well as to his free pursuit of his profession, a statement from Article III said.

Jalandoni, who assured that Mariveles that he has nothing to fear, said he will determine why his name was included in the list and, if he is not satisfied with the reason why it is there, will immediately recommend its removal.

Jalandoni also said he would raise the concern of Mariveles with Lt. Gen. Samuel Bagasing, AFP Central Command chief, on Monday.

Article III has asked Gov. Joseph Marañon to help in clarifying what it called "this very disturbing development" by facilitating a dialog with Jalandoni and provincial police director, Senior Supt. Charles Calima.

Mariveles, in calling on the AFP to strike his name off its Central Command Order of Battle for the first semester of 2005, said he has never been secretary general of the partylist Bayan Muna as it claimed but of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, or Bayan-Negros.

He pointed out that since 2003, he has been a journalist, employed by Aksyon Radyo-Bacolod of the Manila Broadcasting Company as news director.

When the case of Mariveles was raised before Vice President Noli de Castro, a former mediaman, he said he did not know if there was basis or not to include the DYEZ news director on the order of the battle.

Let us see if there is basis, this might be like the case at ABS-CBN where they said they had announcers on a list and I asked them who told them, he said.

"If you have not done anything wrong, if you have nothing to hide, why worry?" de Castro said.*CPG

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